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Here you'll find short, lively activities to focus your class trip, or full-period lessons to integrate into your yearly curriculum. Dive in!
Highlights
Students will explore tectonic plate boundaries and different types of seismic waves generated by earthquakes.
Could you describe the kelp forest food web as a system?
Investigate why flowers have different shapes and colors.
How does the finite amount of carbon on this planet move around in the environment, from one place to another?
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6th Grade - 11th Grade
Observations inspire scientific questions and drive discoveries. Explore seasonal primary productivity on Earth!
6th Grade - 10th Grade
In this activity, students will be transformed into strategically low-impact world travelers.
3rd Grade - 8th Grade
How much of outer space is just space?
4th Grade - 5th Grade
This worksheet reflects on how wastewater in our sewers produces energy and nutrients for further use by people!
4th Grade - 8th Grade
What are some physical traits shared by different prey? By different predators?
6th Grade - 8th Grade
Design and create an original video to promote citizen science.
2nd Grade - 4th Grade
Learn how you and your students can help protect primates.
6th Grade - 10th Grade
Practice rapid ideation—an important step in design thinking—by brainstorming solutions to global water issues.